Minor Project: Mink Character Rigged and Skinned!!- Test

It's taken a while but after following tutorials on rigging quadrupeds, a ribbon spine and some humanoid leg joints, the mink is finally rigged!! Rigging this fella was a tad tricky as the limbs worked more like a humans and the spine was slightly more different to making a quadruped's spine. I've taken onboard some pointers from Ethan Shilling, a post-graduate student renowned on advanced rig and maya, on how the rig looks and testing things as I go along. With this in mind, I skinned tested the character a few times to the point that I'm happy with how it looks. The skinning still needs some cleaning up, but I'm too excited in seeing the little guy move that I wanted to animate him for a bit!!

Rendered Pose Image

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Side- in original position

The rig

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!! I wish yous all a good one!! (≧∇≦)/

Christmas Speed Painting Challenge #3- The Christmas Tree-Rex vs the Candy Cane Colossus!

'The Christmas Tree-Rex vs the Candy Cane Colossus!'

A little quick one, took 15mins :)

Christmas Speed Painting Challenge #2- Santa's Little Helper spliced with a satsuma!

"Oh no! There's been a terrible accident in the Father Christmas Parcel & Gift Teleportation Room! One of Santa's Little Helpers has had his molecules spliced with a satsuma!" 

This one's pretty fun to do!! 20 mins :D

Christmas Speed Painting Challenge #1- The Permafrost Alcazar

Yay!! Its back! :D Kicking things off with the first challenge starting with 'The Permafrost Alcazar'. This took me 30mins to whip up :D

Challenge #1: The Permafrost Alcazar

Minor Project: Final Characters Group

With the colour choices made, here are the finalized colours for all the characters. Unlike my animatic, the animals are hardly seen together as a group but doing this helps create a balance between colors that could be used between each character. The next stage now is to start quadruped rigging!! :D

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Minor Project: Xerces Blue Butterfly Rim Lighting Complete

The finalized colour for the Xerces Blue Butterfly

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Minor Project: Sea Mink Rim Lighting Complete

Decided to settle down with a light blue rather than dark blue to even out the red.

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Minor Project: European Sea Sturgeon Rim Lighting Complete

Like the Eastern Elk, the European Sea Sturgeon had its color chosen in the early stages.

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Minor Project: Haast's Eagle Rim Lighting Complete

Made this guy have yellow tones instead of blue just to have him look more bright and goes well with the orange.

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Minor Project: Stellar's Sea Cow Rim Lighting Complete

The Sea Cow was a little bit tricky to work out his colour as originally he had a yellow hue, but orange seemed to work out better for him in terms of standing out from the group. :)

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Minor Project: Easter Elk Rim Lighting Complete

The first of the lot to have its colours chosen from the early stages.

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Minor Project: Animals Colour Refinements 2

More adjustments on the animal's colours, changing the sea cows rim lights.

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Light orange

light orange

orange

Orange

orange

slightly red-ish orange

slightly red-ish orange

Minor Project: Animals Colour Refinements

Based on feedback from Tutor Alan, I've swapped some colours around in particular the Sea Cows and the Eagle's. I quite like the arrangement of this. :D

Latest experiment

Experiment 2

 It also occurred to me that from my animatic there is an abstract colourful sequence. So I thought I would use this and test out the colours further and here are the results (The fish isn't included as its not in the sequence but instead plays a minor part):

  

The group base on the abstract sequence's colours

The abstract sequence